Scholar-in-Residence

The HBI Scholar-in-Residence programs provide scholars, artists, writers and communal professionals the opportunity to be in residence at Brandeis University while working on significant projects in the field of Jewish women’s and gender studies.

Scholars-in-Residence receive a monthly stipend and office space at the Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center. Applicants living outside the U.S. and those whose work has an international dimension are especially encouraged to apply.

Scholars are invited to apply for residency at the HBI to carry out significant research and artistic projects in the field of Jewish women’s and gender studies.

Residencies range from one month to the full academic semester. Scholars may begin the residency in August but should note that not all members of the Brandeis community will be available until the start of the academic year in September.

In a globalizing, multicultural age, the Jewish experience is arguably even less monolithic than it has been historically, and today the profound impact of gender on Jewish identity and Jewish experience is recognized more than it has often been in earlier times. Fiction writing--novels, short stories, and graphic novels--enters imaginatively into multiples modes of being, and is a particularly fruitful way to explore the diversity of the contemporary Jewish experience.

North American Jewish women writers of fiction, and international ​academics and scholars whose work analyzes North American fiction that explores Jewishness and gender, are invited to apply to this three-month residency program.

HBI-BGI Scholar-in-Residence Program

The HBI-BGI Scholar-in-Residence program, a joint initiative of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and the Brandeis-Genesis Institute for Russian Jewry, provides scholars currently living in, or who have emigrated from, the Former Soviet Union with the opportunity to be in residence at Brandeis University while working on significant projects in the field of Jewish women’s and gender studies.

Scholars from the FSU who are working on any aspect of Jewish women's and gender studies are invited to apply, regardless of gender and religion. Residencies are for a full semester (4 months).

The 2014-2015 HBI-BGI Scholar-in-Residence program is made possible in part by a grant from the Genesis Philanthropy Group.